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Missal; Sinai missal

Egypt, Sinai, Mt., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sin.Slav.5/N. Catalog: 5/N. Collection: New Collection.

Physical descriptionMaterial: Parchment. Extent: ca. 80 ff. Layout: In 1 column, 24-25 lines per page. Condition: The MS is in a bad condition and hardly legible due to the effects of dapm. The first 12 and the last 10 folia are completely destroyed. Decoration: The MS must have been richly decorated with miniatures, some of which are still visible; it also has initials coloured in brown, blue and yellow. .
Scribe

Summary: Two anonymous scribes

  • Hand: Rounded Glagolitic script. One-jer and two-jus orthography.
Contents Contains some prayers from the Holy Liturgy; Prefatia to St. Andrew the Apostle, the Birth of St. John the Baptist, the Holy Martyrs, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, St. Gregory and prayers to the Holy Angels, to St. John the Baptist and for the Annunciation.
History10th-11th c.
BibliographyKME 3: 615-616; Tarnanidis 1988: 103-108.